If you smoke, you probably want to quit. Even if you wish you could smoke forever, you realize that if you want to have a good life and you want to have quality at the end of your life, you have to find help to quit smoking. Smokers have shorter lives, even if they never get cancer, and many have trouble drawing breath in the later years of their life. This hardly makes for a fun retirement. There is help out there and there are also things that you can do on your own to ensure that you are giving yourself every chance to quit so that you can be around to meet your grandchildren and even your great-grandchildren.

There are plenty of over-the-counter aids that you can use to help quit smoking. There are gums, which you do not chew so much as crush between your teeth, patches, and electronic cigarettes. The gums are easy to use to stop a craving in the moment. The patch tries to hold you back from smoking while weaning your system from the nicotine over the course of a few weeks or longer if you need it. The electronic cigarette delivers nicotine without the chemicals from the smoke. All of these can help if you use them as directed.Read More …